HIPAA Updates

Healthcare companies that must abide by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are dealing with difficulties reaching compliance, based on a new study publicized in…

Many U.S. employers have put in place a policy that calls for their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, which includes a number of big…

The new information blocking and interoperability rules created by the Department of Health and Human Services included in the 21st Century Cures Act became effective…

On March 4, 2021, Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and Reps. Mikie Sherrill (D-New Jersey) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey) authored a letter recommending…

On January 5, 2020, President Trump signed a bill (HR 7898) that makes changes to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act…

A vulnerability was found in Zyxel devices such as firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point (AP) controllers that hackers may take advantage of to get…

The DHS’ Cybersecurity and infrastructure Security Agency has published a website with resources concerning the recent activities of the advanced persistent threat (APT) group liable…

Rave Mobile Safety has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Solution that will make it possible for public health agencies to determine who should receive priority…

MITRE Corporation created a new rubric for determining Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores of medical device vulnerabilities and it has passed the FDA’s scrutiny….

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a security warning that hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security…

An advisory issued by the American College Of Radiology, the Society For Imaging Informatics In Medicine, and the Radiological Society of North America highlight a…

The House of Representatives voted to remove the restriction on the Department of Health and Human Services to use federal funds for creating a national…

Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group accepted the proposed settlement deal of the class-action lawsuit that the representative plaintiff filed in connection with…

A lot more organizations these days are implementing their digital transformations and are utilizing the flexibility, scalability, and cost savings presented by public cloud spaces….

Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is confronted with legal action pertaining to two privacy breaches that involved staff accessing the medical records of patients without…

Daniel Bendetowicz, MD, PA is informing 3,314 patients about the exposure of their PHI because of a ransomware attack. The attack took place on March…

UPMC Altoona found out about an unauthorized access to the email account of one doctor and the person possibly viewed or obtained the protected health…

Confido, a pharmacy benefits consulting company began mailing notification letters to 3,600 of its clients’ personnel, users, and their dependents concerning the probable access of…

TigerConnect is a company in the U.S.A. offering the most popular secure healthcare communications platform. It announced that it is giving U.S. health systems and…

The new Vade Secure report unveiled the top 25 commonly impersonated brands in phishing attacks. The Phishers’ Favorite report for Q4 of 2019 stated that…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its Privacy Framework version 1.0 on January 16, 2020. The goal of the Privacy Framework is…

Ransomware attacks are now more advanced. Cybercriminals are creating new approaches and strategies to access systems and deploy ransomware. The most common ways of accessing…

Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss), the Commerce Committee Chair, presented a draft copy of the United States Consumer Data Privacy Act of 2019 (CDAP). CDAP is…

As per the Inflation Adjustment Act, the U.S Department of Health and Human Services took into account the inflation rate when issuing civil monetary penalties…

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has declared a public health emergency in Puerto Rico and the states of Florida,…

Taxpayers and business have been warned of a new IRS phishing scam being used to spread keylogging malware.  The hackers design the emails to appear…

Medical Center Enterprise, Alabama, has been ordered to pay a woman $300,000 in damages for violating her privacy rights. Amy Pertuit’s patient rights were violated…

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre (IC3) has released a report indicating that financial losses due to cybercrime rose drastically in 2018. The 2018 Internet…

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a statement about a recent ransomware attack on the Wolverine Solutions Group, which may have affected up to…

Mimecast has recently released the results of a survey on employee security awareness training in businesses. The results show that in many organisations, employees are…

Protenus, a healthier security organisation, has released its quarterly Breach Barometer Report for Q3 2018. The report is designed to give an insight into the…

February 24, 2018 In January, a new data breach notice bill was announced in Colorado that suggested updates to state rules to improve safeguards for…

February 25, 2018 Is IBM Cloud HIPAA compliant? Is the cloud platform appropriate for healthcare companies in the United States to introduce infrastructure, develop health…

June 27, 2018 Patients who believe HIPAA Laws have been violated can submit a complaint to the Division of Health and Human Services’ Office for…

March 17, 2018 Intercom’s messaging software-as-a-service solutions are trendy with companies for conversing with possible clients. The solutions have the possibility for use in the…

April 12, 2018 The Division of Health and Human Services has filed a proposal to reject a court case filed by the healthcare information management…

April 13, 2018 An ex-receptionist at a New York dental practice has been penalized to serve 2 to 6 years in state prison for stealing…